Mistral AI

Codestral

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Intelligence Index

Codestral de Mistral AI est un modèle d’IA conçu pour le développement logiciel et la génération de code avec poids ouverts auto-hébergeables, offrant une fenêtre de contexte de 256K, une vitesse de 110 tokens/s, un indice d’intelligence de 40/100 et un tarif de $0.2/$0.6 par million de tokens.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Mistral AI
Category
coding
Release Date
2024-05
Knowledge Cutoff
May 2024
Architecture
Code-Optimized Transformer with 32K Window
Parameters
22B
Context Window
256K tokens
Max Output
8K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.05 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
No (Standard)
Reasoning Effort Control
Fixed
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
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Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Permissive Open-Weights (Apache 2.0 / MIT Commercial)
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
codestral-latest
Supported SDK & API Protocol
OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Legacy Stable (Upgrade path available in Mistral AI lineup)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Flat rate ($0.2/1M in) across full 256K window
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Cached input at $0.05/1M tokens
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Weights Precision & Quantization
BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
14 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 47 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
System Card & Safety Framework
Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Codestral Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$16.50$21.00
Monthly Savings: $4.50 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Pay-as-you-go API is cheaper for this volume (saves $3.50/mo vs $20 flat plan).

Break-even point: ~606 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Codestral (Active)
$16.50
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Codestral:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$17.63/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (35)Reasoning (48)Knowledge (70)Speed (73)Context (85)Cost Value (94)
Codestral2026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
28%
GPQA Diamond
42%
MMLU-Pro
70%
HumanEval
81.1%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1240pts

Strengths

  • Fenêtre de contexte de 256K et capacité de sortie maximale de 8K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 28% · GPQA Diamond 42%)
  • Débit rapide de 110 tokens/seconde avec une latence au premier token (TTFT) de 350 ms
  • Poids ouverts (22B) permettant un déploiement sur site ou cloud privé via vLLM, SGLang ou Ollama

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • Nécessite des serveurs GPU dotés de suffisamment de mémoire VRAM pour l’inférence locale à pleine précision
  • Sur les problèmes de recherche fondamentale très complexes, les modèles de raisonnement lourd restent supérieurs

Editorial Assessment

Alliant un indice d’intelligence de 40/100, un contexte de 256K et un débit de 110 tok/s, Codestral s’impose comme une valeur sûre de la gamme Mistral AI.

Best for: Conçu pour le développement logiciel et la génération de code avec poids ouverts auto-hébergeables, l’intégration RAG et les pipelines de production évolutifs.

Frequently Asked Questions about Codestral

How much does the Codestral API cost per 1M tokens?+

Codestral by Mistral AI is priced at $0.2 per 1M input tokens and $0.6 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.05 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Codestral pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Codestral's context window?+

Codestral features a 256K tokens context window, which equals approximately 192,000 English words or ~512 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 8,192 tokens.

Can I run Codestral locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, Codestral (22B) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.

Does Mistral AI train on data sent to the Codestral API, and is commercial use allowed?+

100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Permissive Open-Weights (Apache 2.0 / MIT Commercial). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.

How does Codestral perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Codestral achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 40/100, scoring 28% on SWE-bench Verified, 42% on GPQA Diamond, 70% on MMLU-Pro, and 1240 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Codestral best used for?+

Codestral is best suited for: Conçu pour le développement logiciel et la génération de code avec poids ouverts auto-hébergeables, l’intégration RAG et les pipelines de production évolutifs.. Assessment: Alliant un indice d’intelligence de 40/100, un contexte de 256K et un débit de 110 tok/s, Codestral s’impose comme une valeur sûre de la gamme Mistral AI.

Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.

Sources: Mistral AI Official Documentation & Pricing↗